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Conation

//kəʊˈneɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. countable, uncountable

    "Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated..."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnātiō (“an act of attempting”).

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